Civil rights advocates are urging California to make Clarence Ray Allen's execution the last by permanently ending the ...

The annual number of death row inmates executed in the U.S. is set to nearly double by the end of this year. In 2024, 25 death row inmates were executed, according to the Death Penalty Information ...

Newsom’s past actions have made it clear he deplores capital punishment as deeply as many civil rights advocates,” writes ...

Given the recent spate of executions, it may surprise you to learn that the increase is a false indicator of the state of the death penalty in America. Most of those executions took place many years, ...

Two people were put to death last week. The first happened when Florida carried out the execution of Bryan Jennings. Jennings had been convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, sexual battery, ...

New data from a national watchdog group shows juries nationwide are sentencing fewer people to death, but executions are rising. According to the newly released 2025 report from the Death Penalty ...

America has carried out nearly double the number of executions in 2025 compared to the previous year, fueled largely by Florida’s unprecedented pace of putting prisoners to death. A pair of executions ...

(RNS) — More than 50 faith, civil rights and other organizations launched a joint initiative to oppose the death penalty in the United States as the groups’ leaders say they have been alarmed by ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. About 2,100 people are on death row in America. Some have been there for decades, in ...

Twenty-seven states in America currently sanction capital punishment, commonly known as the death penalty. Twenty-three states have abolished it; Pennsylvania and some other states currently have ...